FEATURES
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This book discusses how to be compassionate but stay
centered without becoming a n emotional sponge.
Barbara: When dealing with diffi cult personalities, how
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can we keep a level head, avoid losing our cool or not
attack back. I guess what Iʼm asking is, how do you
suggest that we cope in a calmer manner?
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Judith Orloff MD: Thereʼs a chapter on emotional vampires,
which is my term for many diffi cult people—for instance,
a criticizer, a victim, a narcissist, or a controller. I say, let
them be our teachers, rather than tormentors. We must
ask ourselves: How do they teach us to communicate
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with more heart and better boundaries? How can we deal
diff erently with feeling irritated, controlled, or insulted?
The old way is to get nasty or withdraw. The new way
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is to not simply react when your buttons get pushed—a
behavior that perpetuates war. Practice what I call “the
namaste eff ect,” which is, ”I respect the spirit within you
even if I donʼt like what youʼre doing.” Your victories over
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emotional vampires are not small—theyʼre huge. With
every success, you are creating more hope for the world.
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From an intuitive standpoint, we are all interconnected:
my emotional freedom aff ects your emotional freedom
aff ects everyone in the world.
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Barbara: What are the four emotional types? What can
they tell us about ourselves?
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Judith Orloff MD: They are “the intellectual,” “the
empath,” “the gusher,” and “the rock.” These are the
fi lters through which you see the world—the default
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setting of your personality to which you revert, especially
under stress. Each type is determined by inborn
temperament, upbringing, and perhaps karma. Since
emotional freedom means being able to remain sensitive
but centered in an overwhelming world, itʼs essential to
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know your emotional type. Without this knowledge,
many people dysfunctionally hunker down in their type
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for decades without examining which aspects do and
donʼt serve them.
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Barbara: I love that you say emotional freedom off ers us
opportunities to be heroes in our own lives. Would you
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elaborate?
Judith Orloff MD: Absolutely. If you suff er loss, if
youʼre having an anxiety attack or feeling depressed or
lonely—these are all very spiritual experiences to me.
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You become a hero in your own life as you learn to use
emotions as a chance to become stronger, brighter,
more. This is critical on a personal level because it
frees you from suff ering. But itʼs just as important on
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a collective level because if we donʼt face the fear and
anger in ourselves, then we risk projecting it onto a
global sphere. This creates war and massive suff ering to
regardless of
our human family. We must fi nd inner peace before we
can have outer peace. Thatʼs why I consider emotional
experience level
freedom an inner peace movement.
Barbara Stahura, a freelance writer in Tucson, Arizona,
has interviewed many of the major transformative
individuals of our time including Louise Hay, Carolyn
Myss, and Wayne Dyer. www.barbarastahura.com.
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